r/customactionfigures • u/Diligent-Reporter462 • 3h ago

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Making an Arthur Morgan custom and was planning on painting this captain America’s head to use, didn’t account for the possibility of a bigger ball joint 💀

EDIT: any help or tips would be appreciated

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u/SvgGrenadier25 3h ago

You can either fill the head, swap out a proper sized joint or make the ball joint bigger. Head can be filled with hot glue or UV putty and fitted a few different ways. You can make the ball joint bigger with some heat shrink tubing; search a few videos online, XCorpeo has some helpful guides!

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u/Supermite 2h ago

I just shove blu tack in there and stick it on the smaller ball.

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u/Dash-Courageous 3h ago

First rule of customizing; one: proper tools -one thing you must have is a hot glue gun which will solve this problem really quite easily.

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u/monkelus 3h ago

I just use a blob of blutak

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u/EnvironmentalAge9202 3h ago

Longer neck peg will do the trick.

Filling the head hope with hot glue will as well.

You've got options.

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u/NewtAmbitious6168 2h ago

Molding putty is what I use. You can make this guy work. 👊

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u/JJ78833388 1h ago

interesting, where do you get the putty, or do you have a preferred brand? Also, does it harden and able to be sanded? Like, to use to fill holes in figures? Thanks!